Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered

For it's time this game was incredibly unique and fun. The concept of an open game world combined with the fact you can smash all buildings was just super fun. It's still quite unique btw. I have not seen any other game do this type of building destruction, especially not in an open world game. Sadly there was never a proper sequel to this game, I waited but it never came. So for this very particular genre, we really only got this game. It's a real gem. Buy the remastered version now especially while it is ridiculously cheap. It's cheaper than a fastfood meal, but so much more satisfying.... Even without the discount this game is far more worth the full price tag. It's pretty long too, especially if you really get into the enjoyment of building smashing and helping build the resistance support.

This is like a GTA style take vehicles to locations to start missions along with side activities to do...only those activities ALWAYS involve blowing everything to pieces and watching it fall over! It feels like a game fairly ahead of its time in terms of a ridiculous amount of the environment being destructible. If you smash into a light pole it explodes into fifty little pieces that bounce according to physics. Throw a barrel against a wall and it will break through the plating. Take any building apart down the foundation and then smash the final toothpicks holding it up with a hammer to watch it all crumble to the ground. It's extremely fun for awhile, and the upgrades you earn with salvage is an incentive to search for scrap and knock down towers. I like that as you weaken the hold of the EDF other martians start to rebel, similar to The Saboteur. Places that used to be patrolled by enemies will start to be populated by friendlies who will restock your ammo at caches. The story is nothing special: EDF are bad, killed your bro and your homies, go blow them up. No nuance. And that lack of polish is why the lack of a star. This game feels ABSOLUTELY out of your control. What blows up, where your charges land, what you hammer hits, if your vehicle stays upright, where the enemies run to, how many bullets it will take to kill them, time limits for missions...it all feels a bit random. But it IS pretty. Nice texture work tightened up. Things go boom in spectacular ways casting up clouds of red dust, the sound design if great, there's always something to do, and it's not too unforgiving, allowing you do overs if you fail or die or just don't do as well as you'd like to. If you don't mind a game feeling more like a physics puzzle occasionally interrupted by enemies, this is a fine choice.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is one of my favorite open world games. If you like Just Cause, you will like this game. The destruction physics are extremely fun to play with (plus low gravity physics actually makes sense on Mars, whereas is feels out of place in other games). The story is mediocre, but the guns are unique and fun to play with, and I really like the driving physics, as well as the mechs. The missions are very fun, and the non-mission tasks like liberating mines or bases are also (sort of reminds me of Just Cause in that way). I also really like how all of the zones are very different from each other, visually and in structure. And on top of all that, it's still supported to this day, and has broken free of the shackles of GFWL. I highly recommend this game for anyone looking for an open world game that is barrels of fun.

I had gotten this on Disc some time ago, and really enjoyed it, almost finished it completely, never thought I would have so much fun with a hammer :) other things came up in life and I let it laps, now it won't even play, but m y PC is old and tired also. And now that it is on Gog, I would gladly pay the price it is selling for. I like the big open world of RFG, there are parts of this game that should been incorporated in to FO3 / 4. But With RFG, you can take ya time and to things how you like, and just have fun with total destruction. It's the most fun in game I had in a long time, because it is a mix of slow and fast paced game play and you choose.

A fun game, completely carried by its destruction physics. No interesting story or characters whatsoever, so only play this if you enjoy blowing stuff up.